Hi
"Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
NP> Actually, there might be one small advantage. If the "dos 7" can
NP> read a FAT32 partition, then you could make more efficient use of
NP> disk space.
Dos 7 can't (it came with Win95, which does not support fat32)
dos 7.?? can ... (win95b/win98)
BUT FAT is one of the worst (read THE worst) filesystem imagineable !
It is simply a table which holds the information.
Modern Filesystems use a balanced binary tree. (HPFS, ExtFS2, even NTFS,
....)
Access is MUCH faster, and clustersize=sectorsize !
NP> One disadvantage: MS-DOS 7 (at least as packaged with Win95) has no
NP> DEFRAG. (There is a defragment pgm in Win95, but it requires Win95
NP> to run.)
Yepp ... maybe there are shareware alternatives.
CU, Ricsi
--
Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
-=> Success lies in achieving the top of the foodchain <=-
